troubled areas ralph lauren, iconic name and also calvin klein and pbh. if you have an iconic name you can get through this period i think. people when we finally beat this, they'll want to spend and i think that the ralph laurens of the world will be the beneficiary. you got to get to the other side, but you can see ralph lauren's up $4 today why? because i think people are saying it's going to make it, and we're going to spend once we're doing better so that's what the market's trying to figure out right now what's iconic and what's unnecessary and ralph lauren's iconic >> interesting, jim. ft's got a piece about warehouse space for apparel, which is filling up almost as fast as warehouse space for oil on tachker tach tankers around the world good tuesday morning welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer, sara eisen, david faber live from separate locations jim will stick around as we talk to 3m's mike roman in a few minutes. let's get consumer confidence with rick santelli

lauren: thank you very much. connell: let's go to steve forbes for some analysis of all of us, forbes media chairman, i guess we learned for one thing that the president is certainly not taking advice from the wall street journal editorial board or anyone else for that matter in the link the briefings, we decided to our reaping from the white house, one thing that blake brought this up, he is talked about announcing the council if the open of the country counsel on tuesday and business leaders, medical leaders to come up with a plan for how we reopen. what are your thoughts, have you been approached personally by the white house to take part? >> no, but i have not been shy about giving my thoughts on how we get this economy reunited and get out of this terrible contraption that were in and one of the things that i hope they will consider is suspending the idea that has been around for one year, the payroll tax which is 15% of workers salary so you're making $46000 a year, suspended for a year, that's $3000 for wo

it is up 6%, lauren. lauren: yeah, and calvin klein.e looking at what lies ahead, the future, and they're back open in china. they said in china they are seeing early signs of recovery. they did report last night, the numbers were not good all they better than expected but the kicker to this story is, that their ceo, manny kirico, he is from the bronx, he recently visited a bronx hospital recently, he is member of the board and he tested positive for the coronavirus. he does continue to work. he says he is recovering and he feels fine. stuart: got it. that's good news. lauren, thanks very much. lauren: what a story. stuart: yeah. ashley, come in from your garage please, tell me about mayor garcetti and los angeles and face masks. ashley: yes. he now says if you're going outside wear a face mask, not the surgical ones. you can make a made-up ones. maybe use a bandanna. we've seen a lot of people do that, home-made ones, maybe a neck warmer, something like that, he says if you're out there, especially out there as an essential worker, doe

. ♪ lauren: i'm lauren taylor. this is al jazeera love -- live from london.lso coming up, britain on track for one of europe'ss worst coronanavirus death tolls, as nw data pushes the toll past 24,000. as the braces for impact economic impact of the coronavirus fuels unrest. in senegal becomes the highest recovery rate country in africa. ♪ hello. while president trump focuses on toll of economy, the the coronavirus on america has worsened. more than one million people are confirmed to be infected air, more than any other country. the total doubled in a little over two weeks, with more than 57,000 people dying. new statistics in the u.k. show the number of deaths to the middle of april were 50% higher than first thought. when those who died outside hospital are included, it pushes the total above 24,000. germany has been held up as a model to control the disease. as it tries to return to normal life, it reports a slight increase in the infection rate. in france set out how it will begin to open up, making masks mandatory on public transport but only allowing fr

lauren, tyson foods? bonuses? lauren: yeah. they are.y. $60 million in bonuses to over 100,000 of their front line workers. these are the workers in the stores, factories and truck drivers. but look, they say we understand our role right now, providing food to the nation and as such, they have to keep their employees safe. they are doing daily temperature checks and they are also providing the masks and gloves as needed. tyson foods, unfortunately, good news for the company but it's down almost 4%. stuart: but it's good news for those people and that's a fine thing. we have another similar story. patron tequila, they are donating $1 million to help the hospitality industry. we have with us adrian parker, patron tequila's vice president of global marketing. it's great to have you with us, adrian. i've got to point this out to our viewers. alcohol sales are absolutely booming, up 55% last week compared to a year ago, and spirits, tequila is a spirit, up 75%. you're having a good time in this nationwide lockdown, aren't you? >> well, stuart

lauren: i do hope so.eing a slowdown in our cases and starting to see a pressure release, but that is the time to be vigilant and not let our guard down. cases asee spikes in people relax their social distancing practices, go back to work, and get tired of being at home and make different choices. just because we are seeing a slowdown in cases does not mean this is over and we suddenly have a toolkit to fight this. we have to follow the social distancing and it does get hard. we have to remind each other it is still really important. lauren, there are two things a lot of people will be worried about. we don't know if they have antibodies and if they do, if they can catch it again. we hear that this could be recurring every year like the flu, but more deadly. lauren: with the antibodies, people can get the disease and not show antibodies. we have a lot of tests that we are not sure how well they are detecting antibodies, so the key pieces are to improve those tests so we know when someone has recovered and

go ahead, lauren. lauren: yeah.r scott shellady yesterday at the top of the show, you put out a tweet saying coronavirus is showing us what socialism is like and he meant it tongue-in-cheek but it's kind of true. as we are all on lockdown and quarantined, this is an idea of what socialism could be like and maybe people are saying no way. susan: i think the democratic party is relieved. it clears the way for biden, of course, to face president trump in the election in november, especially as he isn't getting a lot of air time right now, being stuck at home in his basement. ashley: some would argue that's probably doing him a favor. anyway, i don't want to be snide. edward lawrence has some news on the fed, right? oh, grady trimble. i'm so sorry. grady trimble. let's switch stories. i hope you can hear me. you are talking about truckers, right? reporter: it's not news on the fed, it's on truckers. this coronavirus outbreak has really put a spotlight on how important truckers are to our economy right now. just to getti

lauren? lauren: look at that, stuart. the stock is back above $200 for facebook. their user engagement, phenomenal. daily active users at 1.73 billion, up 11%. they are engaged. here's the problem. when you look at ad revenue, small businesses are responsible for 30% to 40% of ad revenue on facebook but you have to be in business to buy an ad. that's the overhang for this company. however, facebook did say while ad sales were down sharply in march, in april, they were flat. so that is a sign of recovery and that's why the stock is up 6.25% today. stuart: after a big gain yesterday as well. $206 on facebook. susan, take me through microsoft. susan: i'm sorry, stu, we are just 4% away from record highs once again for the stock and another blowout quarter despite the coronavirus spread. it all comes down to cloud and azure, reporting a huge growth of 59% and taking market share away from amazon web services and their cloud division. beating on top and bottom lines and looks like they are guiding

let's go straight to lauren simonetti. she is watching the markets. lauren. lauren: very choppy. the dow was set up to be up five days in a row, 357 at the high. closing in the red, s&p is lower. it is on track for the best month since 1987. nasdaq is the big loser. technology down. health care weighed overall. a lot of dow components reported today, four to be specific this morning. only one of those,fieder actually reaffirmed, rare to do this, reaffirmed full-year guidance but take a look at its shares down over 1%. pfizer spending money on a coronavirus vaccine. it says one could be ready for testing next week for use by the fall. also technology, investors are waiting quarterly results from the big tech companies starting

lauren?lauren: one million face masks coming to ground zero of coronavirus here in the u.s., which is new york city. get this, ashley. they have 120 union workers, uaw workers, making the masks in michigan using 3d printing so that is very cool. but the speed, they are producing one every ten seconds. so ford, the union, technology with 3d printing, coming to new york city. thank you very much. ashley: that's a beautiful thing. also, mcdonald's making a donation of masks, right? lauren: i believe mcdonald's is as well, yeah. grady trimble is in the chicago area and he did say that. mcdonald's is, give me one second, ashley -- ashley: i'm sorry. lauren: what is mcdonald's doing here. do you have it? ashley: one million masks, apparently. yes, i do. i'm sorry. lauren: the n95 respirators. ashley: very nice indeed. that's a nice wrapup of all those companies, to keith's point, all pulling together. it is wonderful. it makes you feel good that everyone jumps in and helps out at this unprecedented

lauren: right. so you are likely not having accidents, so allstate is refunding $600 million total in premiums to over two million customers. it works out to be about 15% of your monthly premium. thank you. it is good news. however, it's probably just a fraction of what allstate is actually saving because we are driving less. true story, ashley. a few days ago, which was the first time i have driven in a very long time, we tried to find a starbucks drive-through that was open. none were open. but i literally forgot how to go to my local places because it's been such a long time since i've actually been behind the wheel. i forgot how to get there. ashley: i hope you -- i hope the rest of the viewers in new jersey have been warned if they see you behind the wheel any time soon. thank you, lauren. want to bring in wall street analyst gordon johnson. gordon, you say market buy-backs could be a problem. explain. >> yeah, so if you look at the stock market over the past several years, through the rally, m

lauren? lauren: connell, i want to make three points here. look at the shares.keting right now. tesla reported its third consecutive quarter of profitability. adjusted earnings of $1.24. now if the company is profitable four quarters in a row, plus some other requirements that tesla actually meets, it could be added to the s&p 500. imagine what that would do to ownership of the stock which is up $53 as i speak. the second point, this quarter was also the first full quarter that shanghai china factory was open. it had a two-week shutdown but it is open. as we await the call with investors, listen to what the executives have to say about their china production as well as getting fremont, california, back online. will they make any change to their deliveries expected for the year which in january was set at 500,000? the company did say in its press release they will revisit their 2020 guidance in the second quarter. they haven't done that just yet. finally the market cap of tesla, $147 billion and growing with this after-hours move. if the six-month average, averag

lauren is also current president of the western association for college admission counseling. lauren, thanks for joining us. >> yeah, thank you for having me. >> boy, you saw how many of those kids have questions. let's start with what can students do right now to improve their chances of getting into a uc this year? >> well, i think the uc application is really self-reported and so the student is really in charge of what they're telling the institution. so you've got to think about what's in your control right now. so your grades right now from this semester, if you do have grades, if they're going to be given to you and can work on raising them before the end of the school year, i think that's really important. and then writing, of course, is important and something that you have total control over, those essays that you're writing, until the moment that you hit submit next fall. so the ucs ask for eight personal insight questions. they want you to respond to four. i think you node to think about what are the four things you most want to get across about yourself and try to

lauren's going to tell us what we are buying. lauren?auren: well, we are buying essential entertainment. used to be food that we were buying. now we are buying books, games, toys and fitness equipment. these items, online searches in the past one and a half months have surged as much as 777% compared to last year. i have two things to point out about this. number one, there could be shipping delays. i have noticed this because i bought several forms of entertainment for my kids and i'm waiting weeks now for it because honestly, it's not essential in a pandemic. and the other thing to note is what about the grooming supplies? walmart said a few days ago they have seen such an uptick in scissors and hair products that we can, you know, cut our hair. you need a haircut, i need a haircut. aren't we buying that stuff? how come that's not in the numbers? online demand. stuart: you say that there's items, some items are not essential. if i had young kids at home and i was locked up with them, i think that games and toys would become highly esse

thanks very much, lauren. lauren: it's had a good run.tuart: i will show you a brewery, a georgia brewery. they launched a new beer to honor dr. anthony fauci. the pale ale is made from superfood berries. fauci spring. good one. fine marketing, i would say. >>> we have to check the state of the beer industry with america's oldest brewery, yuengling. that's coming up in the third hour. we will put them on the air again. >>> first, high end hermes, how do you pronounce that? hermes. high end stuff. they brought in nearly $3 million worth of stuff on the first day that its flagship store reopened in china. nearly $3 million worth. will american shoppers splurge on luxury after the lockdown? we have a discussion on that next. because you can't get to the theater, we're bringing the theater home to you, with xfinity movie premiere. there's a world full of other trolls. how different can they be? our brand-new service that lets you watch all the latest movie releases from the comfort of home. trolls world tour available now. i will protect you

lauren: sure have. her district covers parts of the bronx and queens and in the bronx and queens, 236,000 people have filed for unemployment benefits in the week ending april 11th so in total, for three weeks, up until the week ending on april 11th, 236,000 unemployment claims coming in. that's a good part of the population. stuart: she's encouraging them don't go back to work. maybe she's, you know, she's on solid ground here -- not solid ground but look, those people on unemployment, i think they're making around $600 a week. they might not get $600 a week going back to work. lauren: and that's one of the issues right now, that a lot of folks getting these expanded unemployment checks are making more money now than they would have at their old job but what aoc and many others are saying is they are redefining the spirit of america that you want to go to work, you want to advance at work and you want to make as much money as you can and she's basically -- she's using misery in the nation right now, she

lauren, what have we got? lauren: yeah.conference, he has some good news, that the new hospitalizations, that number is going down. about 18,000 right now. he looked at every worst case scenario model out there, and he said we can't handle this, no matter what happens, we don't have the number of beds to handle the worst case scenarios, but if we keep this social distancing, this stay-at-home, it's 18 days since new york is shut down, we will be able to handle the influx that we get. the number of cases in new york state, over 151,000 and the only place in the entire world that has more than new york is the overall number in the united states of america. so we got hit hard here and we can't relax the social distancing just yet. ashley: no. but a glimmer of hope. we will hang on to that. thank you so much. >>> let's bring in sasha cohen. buck mason co-founder and chief brand officer. thanks for joining us. look, you shifted production, what did you make and now you are making face masks. tell me how all this came about. >> y

lauren, what do we have on that? lauren: yeah.aid responding to the coronavirus is a nationwide approach and all states need to do their part. listen. >> we have to change the curve we're on. we see country after country having done that. what it means in the united states is not everyone is doing it so we are only as strong as every community, every county, every state, every american following the guidelines to a tee. when we see others beginning to bend their curves, we can bend ours, but it means everybody has to take that same responsibility as americans. lauren: as ashley told you earlier, we are seeing in italy the lockdowns, the strict social distancing, shelter in place orders do work, because the number of infections go down, the bending of the curve, if you will. stuart: that's right. that was some positive news from ashley about italy. they have begun to bend the curve or certainly looks like that. lauren, thanks very much indeed. let's talk general motors. turning factories into virus-fighting factories, machines, i g

lauren, details on that, please. lauren: yeah.s called remdesivir and it's in many clinical trials and one trial from chicago hospital shows that of 125 patients, most of them severely ill, they recovered and were discharged in a week's time. so it's a fast-acting treatment. this will help treat people with coronavirus and eventually open back up the economy. it's not a slam-dunk. a lot of analysts that i have been reading notes from this morning are saying the market is somewhat overreacting to this, but it is good news going forward that we are working on treatments. stuart? stuart: all right, lauren. thanks for tap dancing like that while my audio went down. i do appreciate it. let's turn to susan, who also helped out with the tap dance. you've got more positive news coming to us from the medical area. what's the news on moderna? the stock is way up. susan: we know the pipeline vaccine development is a very costly endeavor and they are getting half a billion dollars from the health and human services in order to progress furthe

, lauren and i are getting visited by the beast right now.er comes at night. as you will remember, karen. and i'm seeing it in lauren's eyes where your face just starts to get hot and i saw you grabbing for the water, i know, i know where you are, and i feel for you so to do for them right now? is there any kind of help that you need, that we could help with, lauren? >> well, my 7-year-old puts herself to bed somewhere around 1:00 in the morning, i think. i have a makeshift playroom in her room now. she has everything, and she's calling my mom at, like, 11:30 at night. 12:00 at night. coming in to check on me. and then, i don't know. finally, i don't know what happens. i cdo fall asleep, and i have n idea what she's doing. the other ones, thank goodness, go to sleep. and my house will definitely need some kind of infestation repair. thank goodness my husband's not here because he would not -- looking what my house looks like right now, in any way, shape, or form. >> well, let's do this. i'm going to stay in touch with you and see how your fam

give me all the details, lauren. lauren: you got it. okay.as a record amount of oil, 9.7 million barrels a day, being taken off the market. that's 13% of worldwide production. this is what the president tweeted earlier this morning. he said having been involved in the negotiations to put it mildly, the number that opec plus is looking to cut is 20 million barrels a day, not the 10 million that is generally being reported. if anything near this happens and the world gets back to business from the covid-19 disaster, the energy industry will be strong again and he continues, you asked the energy secretary dan brouillette about that earlier, will the united states be able to maintain oil independence. listen. >> imagine if this pandemic had happened in 1973 or 1974, when we were wholly dependent upon nations for the importation of oil. the fact that we are able to produce the amount that we are able to produce today place the united states of america, place this president in a position of strength in order to bring this deal together. lauren: and

lauren, go ahead. lauren: and here's why. what netflix does that a lot of other streamers don't do is they film and release an entire series all at one time. they don't do it week by week as traditional tv and other streamers do so they have in the can seasons for may, june and july, content that can be released. also, a lot of their content was in post production at the time of the lockdown orders so they are able to have their employees work at home and get that out. they will be affected by this but not as much as some of the other players. stuart: $422 on netflix right now. next case, chipotle. ashley, i'm told that this big-time ordering online for chipotle? ashley: yeah, in fact the orders have surged 81% as people stay indoors and say you know what, i feel like some chipotle. expensive rice and beans, you used to call it. they also just paid a $25 million fine for those outbreaks that made people sick at their restaurants from 2015 to 2018. that's the largest food safety fine ever. maybe now that's in the rear view mir

francine: that was lauren sauer from johns hopkins.igures, a lot of curiosity about what happens to the price of oil. lowertook quite a leg after we saw what happened wti futures. 500 andking at the s&p futures are rising with european stocks gaining 1%. a couple of strange currencies we need to look at including pound. tom: we will look at the data in our next hour and reframe it. we have a better market, and equity lift, but far more important we have all sorts of correlations, a challenge to the very gentle lift. when you look at a steeper yield curve, it all works, but it is just a little bit of lift off of what we saw yesterday. we are getting used to weigh $11 handle on west texas $11rmediate used to a handle on west texas intermediate, some perspective from fatih birol this morning. this afternoon from new york, speaker pelosi. this is bloomberg. ♪ beyond the routine checkups. beyond the not-so-routine cases. comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. all working with a new generation of technologies pow

lauren-brooke eisen. guest: the united states leads the world as the number one incarcerated. we have less than 5% of the global population yet we have nearly 25% of the world's prisoners across 6000 prisons and jails in the united states. correctional facilities are crowded, unsanitary, right now a handful of states and prisons in the federal system -- [no audio] this was a very specific policy decision to rack up 2.2 million people and with the brennan center have done research for many years all across the country looking at who is incarcerated. the brennan center published a report a couple years ago finding incarceration does not make us safer. are livingn 2020 we in the safest times in the united states. in 1991 inmes peaked the united states. today, we have incredibly safe communities with very low crime rates except for a couple of pockets across the country. we know that incarceration does make people more criminally and client. they are separated from families , cannot get a job, and communities

lauren and susan, come on in. want to check out this video which shows disturbingly how a cough spreads the virus. i think it was put together by a university in finland. someone coughs. i am assuming that the green blob is the droplets. if you are walking down an aisle in a supermarket or wherever, that's what you have to contend with, and that's why we wear masks, and that just kind of shows you those particles, how easily they spread over barriers and stick around for a while. what are your thoughts? >> that's further than 6 feet, isn't it? doesn't it look like it's like 20 feet because we've been told the viruses and germs spray 6 feet and that's why you need to stand 6 feet apart. this makes me wonder if i should stand further and not around anybody. ashley: lauren, it shows why we need to wear a mask; right? >> yeah, here in new jersey you have to wear a mask when you're going into a grocery store or any essential business. yesterday my husband went into a grocery store with the mask on, and there was a woma

lauren simonetti joins us with the latest on this. lauren. lauren: good afternoon, cheryl.l tenants across the country, they're planning a stroock tomorrow because they don't have the money to pay the rent or the mortgage. now protesters, they want to persuade lawmakers to cancel all rent and mortgage payments until the jobs return. they say freezing the payments until a later date isn't enough. >> without doing this, that is the better question, what will happen? what happens to all of these banks and lenders and renters? you guys remember what happened in 2008 with housing crisis where we had everything crash. this is means to prevent that from happening. lauren: presidential candidate joe biden tweeting this, with rent due in a few days, it is clear more needs to be done. we need to freeze rent for people lost their jobs and place a temporary ban on evictions. protesters want more than a bandaid. 13 million apartment renters missed april rent as of first week of the month. most of them caught up by mid-month. but the numbers will get worse as we enter may. 3.4 million ho

lauren? lauren: i have two things to say here. as larry kudlow told you, stuart, 60 million jobs saved because of the small business lending. those were just some of those workers. by the way, what a saint that owner is. didn't she tell you she has two children with down syndrome? stuart: yep, she did. that's right. two. all of the employees -- lauren: she is a hero. stuart: absolutely. 100%. got that right. susan, what have you got? susan: i was just crying through it because my brother suffers from cerebral palsy so i understand and you know, obviously i have to give high marks to people like the owner of that cafe and obviously for the ppp to be able to save these jobs. i'm sorry, i'm a little shaken here. it's a great story. stuart: it is a great story. you are entitled to react like that. good stuff from one and all. >>> more "varney" after this. . . economy have you worried about your finances in retirement? learn how senior homeowners are using home equity to improve their monthly cashflow and preserve their savings. most p

lauren, what do you have? lauren: i got one.r to buy homes, particularly in popular big cities. zillow found traffic to its site nationwide rose 13% versus that same week in 2019. san francisco, los angeles, minneapolis saw big gains. however, it's not a positive story, unfortunately, all around. cities including new york city, boston, detroit, philadelphia, among cities that are still suffering a bit. stuart: the cities are suffering. that's the truth. thanks very much indeed. pro basketball teams could be back to practice by the end of next week. are they gearing up for some kind of season? we will discuss that with boston celtics center enes kanter. he's on the show later this hour. he's been on the show before. he's back. got that. >>> more people are backing claims by joe biden's accuser. he's staying silent. kennedy is here. we will get her take on that. >>> the senate returns to capitol hill on monday. senator bill cassidy is ready to hit the ground running. he will join us next. >>> a live look at the white house. presid

lauren, what have we got from amazon on streaming? lauren: okay. there's more than just netflix out there so let me tell you what amazon is doing. they are adding some free hbo content so you don't even need to be a prime member to get full seasons of five key shows, ballers, big little lies, silicon valley and succession plus ten documentaries, 20 episodes of sesame street and 20 warner brothers movies. let me tell you, the stock is down today. amazon yesterday, all-time high, up 24% this year. first time ever, closing with a $1.1 trillion market cap. stuart: hold on a second. i can get this new video on amazon and i don't -- i get it for free, but i don't have to be a prime member. is that accurate? lauren: correct. correct. so as we are staying at home and as you say, your friends are running through show after show, what do you watch, amazon is saying you know what, you can watch for free, you don't even need to be a paid prime member. we are giving you this at & t content from hbo and warner brothers. stuart: thanks, lauren. here's what we've

lauren: absolutely. have to keep our medical staff, frontline medical workers healthy because the patients will keep coming whether the doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists are healthy or not. the personal protective is critical to protecting these health-care workers. you need the masks or the personal air. find devices so you can safely the and go and do procedures you need to do to keep a patient breathing. procedures we do generate aerosol, small products that have the virus in it, so ppe's are critical to keeping the staff safe and the hospital running. so much, lauren sauer with johns hopkins university and their medical system, expert in emergency medicine and affiliated with the bloomberg school of public health. we have much more on "surveillance" and all over the bloomberg television network today. we will be going all over the nation, leading to the jobless claims tomorrow, anticipated to be a grim approximation of the urgency for individuals in america and also for small business, th

lauren and i are getting visited by the beast right now.omes at night, as you'll remember, karen. and i'm seeic it in lauren's eyes, where your face starts to get hot and i saw you grabbing for the water. i know where you are and i feel so much. the kids, as an element. are you able to do what you need to for them right now? is there any help you need? >> my 7-year-old puts herself to bed around 1:00 in the morning, i think. i have a makeshift play room in her room and she's calling my mom at 11:30 at night, 12:00 at night, coming to check on my. and finally, i don't know what happens. i fall asleep and have no idea what she's doing. the other ones, thank goodness, go to sleep. and my house will need some infestation repair. thank goodness my husband is not here, because he would not get better look athwhat my house looks like right now in any way shape or form. >> i'm going to stay in touch with you and see how your family is going through it. karen says it would be hard and she went through a lot herself. that's why i take so seriously tr

, many thanks, lauren moss.rts to stay at home this weekend and for sticking to strict social—distancing rules, despite the warm weather. danjohnson has the story. it's been a strangely quiet weekend right across the country. rarely are the streets of the capital empty like this. 0ur motorways were almost abandoned as people overwhelmingly listened to the pleas to stay close to home. in blackpool, people were out and about but mostly sticking to the rules. there's a lot more people out exercising, but i'd say 99% of people are listening, and they're taking our advice. 0n the south coast, hastings was extremely quiet for a sunny bank holiday. i mean, on a sunday, normally this place is heaving. we met george — 69 years old and vulnerable. all i do is come out every day and get a bit of fresh air, and i never get out of my scooter, for the simple reason is, i'm safe in here. it's all just empty. it's like the walking dead. and all the restaurants are all closed. there is a group of four having some drinks, and the

lauren: okay.w, joe exotic convicted for hiring someone to murder his rival, carol baskin. now there are questions about what happened to her missing husband, don lewis. here's nancy grace. >> what do you believe happened to jack don lewis and why do you believe that? >> what i had heard was that he was strangled from the back seat of an airplane over the gulf at 50 feet and dropped out over the gulf. lauren: did you hear that? his lawyer said he was pushed from a plane and fell into the gulf of mexico. he was reported missing back in 1997 and his car was found at an airport parking lot. he was a pilot. gets crazier by the day. stuart: but it's very very good for ratings and viewership. you can't lose with that, can you. no, you can't. more "varney & company" after this. . . ♪ stuart: gets your attention, doesn't it? a dancing dinosaur making root beer deliveries in vermont. rookie's root boar usually sells in local restaurants. they closed up and got creative. dancing dinosaurs, bernie, ben & jerr

lauren, tell me more. lauren: $10 million.o the payroll protection program, to the government. when they found out they could get the money, they wanted to keep their employees working so they accepted the funds but when they learned that so many smaller restaurants weren't able to get access to funding, they said you know what, take our $10 million back and give it to the small workers that need it more, the smaller businesses that need it more, so they can stay afloat. at least 12 public companies have received money from this program and it's bad optics in a lot of ways but you have to remember, the government got this out really fast. it is imperfect. there was no rule book or no manual and these are some of the complications that we are seeing arise. stuart: yes. they did pump it out real fast, record time. you can understand some snafus, shall we say. the bottom line, criticism is still that the big guys got it more than and quicker than the little guys. i want to bring in brad close, national federation of independent b

i asked lauren if it was ok.se guys? just thank you very much for what you did. obviously, you didn't have to do that without getting emotional, you did and it means the world for us. you did and it means the world for us. to me, to logan and his sisters, lilley and sarah, yeah, thank you. you're welcome. no problem. is logan, does he still talk about it, is he still excited about the visit from these three? yes, he was asked what their real names were, because he thinks that the dead pool talked funny. i explained that dead pool is extremely cornish! malc is that you? yes, i was. who knew dead poolwas cornish? you guys must have been so busy, what has it been like? it's 0k. it's busy, what has it been like? it's ok. it's busy. people are at home, they're ordering parcels, because they're ordering parcels, because they can't get out and get supplies. but it is ourjob and we keep going and it is nice when we get cards like the once behind us. because we get tired and we are busy. but it is the service we provide.

lauren: yeah. the protesters are calling it operation queen's castle because she's made them surrender their liberties during this pandemic. here was the trigger. she wants to extend the stay-at-home orders in michigan until may 15th. she has been criticized for having a patchy framework of orders. for instance, you can buy marijuana and a lotto ticket but you can't have a gardiner come to your house. there will be a special state legislative meeting today, perhaps curbing her powers or making adjustments to the orders. she will also hold a press conference later this morning updating the state's response to coronavirus but here's the issue. it's not a one size fits all policy. if you look at the entire state of michigan, there are 35,000 infections. in the county where detroit is, it's much worse, there's more than 15,000 infections. stuart: you're right, one size does not fit all. i think that's the bottom line here. lauren, thanks very much indeed. look, what we're talking about here when we are

i'm fully confident you've been able to do that, right, lauren? lauren: i got it.onnell at the high, dow was up 937 points but we started to lose the gains in the final moments really when the oil market closed. we saw a big plunge in the price of oil. a lot of uncertainty that opec an russia can really cut a deal to take supply off the market. then you also have to remember we went from bear market to bull market or potentially bull market for the s&p 500, really, really fast. investors started to say, you know what? we're dealing with most of the economy being shut down because of the coronavirus. maybe the s&p 500 isn't ready to start a new bull market just yet and it did not happen today. the s&p closed lower by four points. so closing in the red. however two themes i wanted to talk about today. the first theme eagerness to by beaten down names. look at kss, kohl's, they have gained 50% in two days. up 20% today. other names sharply in the green. they have been beaten up badly during all of this. the other theme, this idea what the return to normal looks like.

lauren: there are good candidates coming up. from between three and 12 months which is unbelievable for vaccine science. this exciting to see all progress being made. realistically i think a vaccine that is ready to go out to the general public is a year away. we could be seeing candidates that are used to protect front-line workers and health care workers. francine: what is the biggest challenge now? some questions about asymptomatic cases, until you find out more it is difficult to get a handle on them. also immunity, how close are we to understanding whether people that had it can go back safely to work? lauren: there is a lot of work being done on the immunity question. because we are so early in the outbreak we have to wait to see how people them you respond to stay over time and when people are ready to go back to work without having symptoms. the biggest challenge is testing. we are trying to ramp up testing in a meaningful way and that is what every single other public health measures -- to be able to travel and reduce m

lauren baer was senior advisor to secretary of state hillary clinton during the obama administrationre are still steps that can be taken to help control the world today.pandemic facing the so lauren, what did we learn as a government, as a country from fighting ebola? >> earlys action critical to getting ahead of an infectious disease an forestalling a potential pandemic. and what we realized right from the outset was that this had the potential to be not on a public health crisis, but also an economic crisis, also a grave threat to america's nationalty secuand because of that, because it was such a complex and multifaceted problem, we eded a coordinated whole of government response right from that's why you saw the obama administration create an ebolaar and that's why you saw it lead in the wake of ebola an entire office within the national security council dedicated to dealing with the risk of pandemics and response to them if they arose. >> sreivasan: what's the difference on whether that office exists at the nfc or it doesn't? the difference is do you have the players and the exp

huntington is up there, hamilton and laurens are there.i don't want to go to the bejeweled laurens. i pale in comparison. alexander hamilton does not get enough credit. you know how the war ends, the patriots win. yorktown is not the actual end of the war. but that is how it turned out to be in terms of major battles. now let's turn to 1790. we know that hamilton is already been working as treasury secretary. he also founds the u.s. revenue cutter services. he is considered the father of the coast guard. i go there every year to give an award at that spot right there. i was there for the unveiling of this beautiful sculpture by benjamin victor, who donated it by the class of 1963 last fall. it is the appropriately named hamilton hall, the main administered hall at the coast gard academy in connecticut. there is a painting inside hamilton hall, and that is of him running the service. you can see an early u.s. flag in the background, a full sail, and a lighthouse. that is by this chinese painter. some illustrations of the covers service at t

reporting live in the newsroom, lauren martinez, abc7 news. >> that's clever and a crackup, lauren. thanks a lot. will you accept this roll of toilet paper. >>> sandhya, we're just going to give you time for weather. we're not passing the toilet paper over to you. >> hi, sandhya. >> oh, come on, now, send me some toilet paper. i have plenty of it here. dan and ama, we're going to start talking about the forecast because your weekend is almost here. and as you take a look at live doppler 7, there are a pair of storms that we're tracking. so the first one is going to get us wet on saturday. the second one is a stronger storm. we need it. take a look at rainfall percent of average. 40% san francisco. sfo, oakland currently 52% in santa rosa. san jose, you're behind 45%. and san francisco downtown 49% of average. on live doppler 7, no rain yet,n your temperatures right now in the 40s, 50 we do have fair skies. tomorrow morning witeoing t seeing the temperatures plunging. freeze warnings for the interior portions of lake and mendocino counties. but we also have frost advisories for other

so, lauren, tell me a little bit about this partnership between the gap and cvs? >> sure. well, cvs is dng ttually with a few dozen large companies. when companies like the p started realizing that they ere going to have to furlough or lay oloyees, they started looking at options for finding ways to place those employees with oth companies that were actually hiring now. you know, it's interesting with n is crisis, some companies are seeing a surge idemand, others are seeing a complete drop-off in demand. so, cvs is now working with dozens of retailers, hospitality companies, airlines, to try to figure out how to match people >> sreenivasan: so this isat are really just about kind of taking advantage of the work that these other companies have already done? >> in a way, it is. these are people who are already vetted and screened by one major employer. what's really interesting to me is that two months ago, these ies were competing for some of these same workers. the labor market was at historic itlowsunemployment. now, suddenly, they're trying to collaborate in these really

reporting live in the newsroom, lauren martinez, abc7 news. >> that's clever and a crackup, lauren. thanks a lot. will you accept this roll of toilet paper. >>> sandhya, we're just going to give you time for weather. we're not passing the toilet paper over to you. >> hi, sandhya. >> oh, come on, now, send me some toilet paper. i have plenty of it here. dan and ama, we're going to start talking about the forecast because your weekend is almost here. and as you take a look at live doppler 7, there are a pair of storms that we're tracking. so the first one is going to get us wet on saturday. the second one is a stronger storm. we need it. take a look at rainfall percent of average. 40% san francisco. sfo, oakland currently 52% in santa rosa. san jose, you're behind 45%. and san francisco downtown 49% of average. on live doppler 7, no rain yet, but that will be changing come this weekend. your temperatures right now in the 40s, 50s. we do have fair skies. tomorrow morning with pretty clear skies, you're going to be seeing the temperatures plunging. freeze warnings for the interior porti

lauren blanchard is live on capitol hill. lauren? >> hi, jon. well, senator schumer and house speaker pelosi said they had constructive calls with the treasury secretary mnuchin, senator schumer says he hopes they can reach a bipartisan agreement by early this week, while nancy pelosi says one way or another, her members are planning to vote on something by the end of the month. as a reminder, congress is out of town until next week, at the earliest. republican and democratic leaders are still at odds over funding for that small business loan program, the paycheck protection program and how to begin writing a phase four relief bill. senate democrats blocked leader mcconnell's move last week to push another 250 billion dollars to the ppp. he and house minority leader mccarthy put out a statement saying republicans reject democrats reckless threat to continue blocking job-saving funding unless we renegotiate unrelated programs which are not in similar peril. republicans say there will be more economic relief. however, they disagree with democrats

we go to lauren in fort lauderdale, florida. gig employees. what is your job right now? caller: i'm a massage therapist. i was working full-time. i had a fantastic schedule of people. anymore, ildn't work was dead. i didn't have any more customers. zero coming in. i'm a 1099 worker. i don't qualify for most things. maybe the care act. it's very difficult. the place i work for is a mom-and-pop business, completely shut down. if they open everything, a lot of people want to open. someone like me, do i want to go to work right away? i went to many websites. i'm single, not married, no kids. you don't qualify for anything. thank you for taking my call. host: good luck to you. guest: yes. exactly like lauren, so many workers, workers who are independent contractors, 1099, they do not qualify for all the employment protections and benefits for this crisis. for the most part, they don't now. as i understand it, some benefits are now being extended in some states to 1099 workers including unemployment. i would encourage lauren to check on the roles in florida to see if she actua

lauren fix thank you so much for joining us today to discuss this important issue thank you thank you. and as we talk about mode of transportation scooter sharing giant lime is buying assets from electric skateboard startup boosted according to a newport from the burj has bought up at least 5 of boost its core patents and the company is apparently working on securing the company's intellectual property dating back to the end of 2019 a former boosted c.e.o. confirm some details of the acquisition by a reddit post earlier this year boosted ran into issues after developing a new electric scooter which ran roughly $1600.00 and was also hit hard by the trade war between the u.s. and china made it harder for them to get parts boosted also expanded quite a bit of cash working to expand into 30 nations worldwide at this time it's actually unclear what lines plans for the assets will be and that's it for this time you can catch boom bust on the brand new portable t.v. f. of smartphones through google play and the apple app store by searching portable t.v. and as always you can check it out on

lauren fox reporting for us, lauren, thank you. >>> let's get the latest now on how the pandemic is playing out across the united states. our national correspondent, erica hill, is in new york for us. erica, still a very grim situation up there, i understand. >> reporter: you know, it is at this point. we are obviously still dealing with the virus here in new york state. what's also been fascinating to watch throughout the day, wolf, is how the conversation is changing around the country, as so many states react to these guidelines from the president and make clear what they need to even get close to phase i. >> this is mayhem. we need a coordinated approach between the federal government and the states. >> reporter: new york governor andrew cuomo repeating his plea for help with testing supplies and funding. >> the federal government cannot wipe their hands of this. >> reporter: as states react to the president's new guidelines, further evidence there is no one-size-fits-all plan. >> it looks like a number of states in the south, for example, will have smaller epidemics than were expected.

industry amid the pandemic with john quelch dean of the miami herbert better business school and lauren fix the car coach thank you both for joining me lauren let's start with you as we talk about the prospects of reopening the economy here in the states what does this look like for u.s. auto manufacturers. our manufacturers are planning to start opening up depending on the manufacturer and its location starting in the 1st week of may all weekend may but we have notice we're going to see some support for this because just today the president announced that sales are considered essential as well as distribution and manufacturers and suppliers so that's going to be a major plus. the automakers in china had their worst ever quarter from the start of january to the end of march sales dropped by more than 40 percent in that period according to the china association of auto manufacturers is the industry going to be able to pick back up in the country as restrictions are lifted. as a matter of fact the to mond in china has been going down steadily over the past 21 months as a result of governm